Yesterday, during a debate on
NDTV, the senior lawyer Majid Memon thrashed the activist crusaders like Arvind
Kejriwal and Y P Singh saying they were creating an atmosphere as if everything
about India was going wrong painting an absolutely negative picture of a nation
where there was much good to talk about.
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It is true there isn’t an absolute
gloom like situation in India as of now and one living example to that is the
one-after-the-other expose happening these days putting in the dock even the powerful
politicians like Salman Khurshid or the members of Gandhi or Pawar families.
But the acidic truths is we, as a
country, are in real and present danger of sliding into an absolute gloom if
the corruption that started growing faster than the Indian economy since the
1991 economic liberalization becomes precursor to an anarchy.
What looks like an anarchy on the
surface at the moment with consistent scam-based headlines in the media and an
audaciously insensitive breed of politicians and policy-drafters might well
become anarchy of lethal dimensions if what is happening keeps on happening.
The country is generating wealth
is a well established truth. But when most of it is going into creating
big-ticket scams running into billions of dollars, not reaching to the ‘aam
aadmi’, the disparity and the dissatisfaction are bound to go up.
The irony of the India of the day is the people who are supposed
to make India
a developed nation are involved in the shameless act of looting the resources
meant for it. The proportion of corrupt politicians and officials has already
reached to the tipping point of tolerance.
Even more ironical is the fact
that the people who were thought to be the crusaders to rip into the rotten
kingdom of such ‘politicians + officials’ nexus are themselves embroiled in
controversies of intent and probity as their acts, too, are looking to follow a
chart of vested interests.
We never saw the demeanor of a
committed and impartial social activist in Arvind Kejriwal, one of the
most-in-news these days. The way he used Anna Hazare, the way he used media,
the way he is using media, the way the anti-corruption movement people like Prashant
Bhushan, Mayank Gandhi, Anjali Damania and many others are facing questions of
probity in their deeds, it all gives the politicians and officials a favoured
pitch to run amok as their only vocal opposition is fast losing ground.
This all is making the disorder
go wider where whoever is at the helm of the affairs, be in politics or in
administration, gains the power to manipulate the system in order to continue
with the unabashed loot. The ‘political code of trust’ as elaborated by
Digvijay Singh recently only adds to the whammy of the Indian who was thought
to be the main focus of the world’s largest written Constitution.
As a natural consequence to all
this, the insensitivity of all the types who are supposed to lead the nation
and who are in the fray presently, is bound to grow and perpetuate.
A natural consequence to such a
situation would be the masses getting up in protests. We saw a glimpse of it
the last year but that just proved a flicker.
That tells we have not yet
reached the tipping point.
Given the way things are
happening, we are bound to reach that. Small town and rural India is still
destitute. Hunger, illiteracy and malnourishment are still the realities of the
modern India .
Reds are back in action. Andhra Pradesh is witnessing resurgence of child
marriages almost after two decades.
This all says we are moving but
the orientation is not directed yet.
Disorder has an inherent tendency
to push the Order from the periphery to the centre. That is how the wheels of
civilizations and revolutions move. We need to believe that the Elements of the
Order are moving towards the centre.
Multiplying affluence of the
class ruling us and the diminishing prospects of the class being ruled is bound
to speed up the movement of the Elements of Order.
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